Word: tyrants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deist, an ardent disciple of Rousseau, and I suspect a Freemason," fled Spain in 1823, settled in Glasgow, and moved to "rural, republican, distinguished, Jeffersonian Virginia. Here, if anywhere, mankind had turned over a new leaf, and in a clean new world, free from all absurd traditions and tyrant mortgages, was beginning to lead a pure life of reason and virtue." In 1835 Grandfather was back in Spain, U.S. consul at Barcelona, appointed by Andrew Jackson at a low point in U.S.-Spanish relations...
Bertie Charles Forbes, Hearst financial columnist, publisher (Forbes Magazine), author (Keys to Success), was sued for a separation by his wife Adelaide after 28 years. She charged that her husband is a "bully, egotist, tyrant and bore," and that she had to "draw his bath, lay out his clothes, button his shirt and underwear, cut his toenails, lace his shoes and open his car door...
Somebody at the Door is compounded of the stories of the people involved in the murder - Grayling, the murdered man, over 50, grey-eyed, thin, inquisitorial, cold, churchwarden, town councilor, Home Guardsman, petty grafter, a tyrant to his young and pretty wife; Renata, 38, brown-haired, self-seeking, moodily vengeful; Ransom, pickpocket, fugitive, a World War I veteran recovering his self-respect in the Battle of Britain; Mannheim, a German refugee chemist, possibly a spy, square, dark, smuggled out of Germany...
...thugs spread terror, his henchmen grabbed Italy's financial and economic power, and through the organized murder in 1924 of Giacomo Matteoti, the one dangerous leader of his opposition, boosted him to a modern tyrant's throne...
Theodore Morrison is director of English A. He is not a tyrant who broods in a Warren House office over new ways to torture Freshmen and take the joy out of their bright young lives. If he were not enthusiastically devoted to what he calls a "blundering and profane" game of tennis, if he did not spend his summers on a Vermont farm where he can swim and chop wood and write, if his own two children were not rather young, he would make a wonderful grandfather. He has forgotten his age; he looks at you straightforwardly with kindly, maybe...